Improvement in self-closing barrel-fillers



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.,

HENRY A. WEBBER AND CHARLES REIFSNYDER, 0F CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN SELF-CLOSING BARREL-FILLERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 5l ,372, dated December 5,1865.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that we, HENRY A. WEBBER and CHARLES REIEsNYDER, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improved Self-Closing Barrel-Filler; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and the letters and figures marked thereon7 which form a part of this speciiication, and in which- Figure l represents a side elevation of our machine, and Fig. 2 a vertical sectional view of the stock A.

The nature of our said invention consists in a novel device to be inserted in the bung-hole of a barrel or other similar vessel, whereby the iiuid may be introduced into the barrel or vessel, aud whereby, when the vessel is filled, the pressure of theiluid will automaticallyclose the machine, as hereinafter more fully described.

To enable those skilled in the art to manufacture and use our invention, we will proceed to describe the same with particularity.

Similar letters of reference represent corresponding parts in the dierent figures.

A is a hollow tapering casin g, provided with a screw cut upon its exterior surface so as to tit closely into the bung-hole, and provided also with the inlet-pipe C and outlet-pipe D at its upper end and the two ports or apertures f and g at its lower end, which enters the barrel. Fitting within said casing is the correspondingly shaped turning` plug or block, (marked B,) which extends up above the top of the casing A, and is provided with some suitable device to facilitate the turning the same, as shown. The said adjustable or rotating block B is constructed with two separate longitudinal chambers, (marked F and G in Fig. 2.)

The chamber F is provided at its upper end with the port e and at its lower end with the port f, so arranged that when the block B is so turned that the upper port corresponds with the inlet-pipe D the lower port corresponds with the outlet-aperture in the lower end of A, as shown. -The chamber Gr is also provided with the corresponding ports g and h, adapted to the lower aperture in A and the outlet-pipe D, as shown. There is a spring coiled around that part of the turning block projecting above the casing A, as shown, for

the purpose of holding the block B in such a position with respect to the casing A thatall the ports c f g 7L are closed, which is the ease when the arm c, attached to B, is at m. When the turning block is in the position shown in the drawings the arm crests in a catch on the lever a and holds said block in that position, the lever a being held up for that purpose by the weight of the ball or float H.

D' is a continuation ot the outlet-pipe D, and leads into the cup E. In this cup there is a globe or float, H, to which there is connected a rod, r, that extends up through the cover of said cup, and is connected by means of the lever I and rod K to the lever c.

The device is screwed or otherwise tightly inserted in the bung-hole of the barrel or vessel to be filled, and the turning block B arranged or turned to the position shown in the drawings, and there firmly held by the arm c resting in the catch on the lever c. The iiuid then ilows into the chamber F and out into the barrel, as indicated by the arrows, the air in the meantime passing up through the chamber G and pipe D into the cup E, when it escapes through a small hole in the cover to said cup. When the barrel is full the iluid also rises in said chamber G and up through the pipe D into the cup E; but as it rises in the cup E it raises the globe or iloat H, which vibrates the lever I, and by means of the rod K pushes down on the lever a, which slides the catch on said lever 'off of the arm c, when the spring s revolves the turning block, bringing the said arm c around to the shoulder m, and thus effectually closes all the parts ot' the apparatus, which may then be removed and inserted in another barrel and the operation repeated. A iiexible tube or other suitable arrangement is attached to the apparatus at C and connected with the vat or tank containing the iluid to be drawn oft'.

S represents a set-screw whose foot rests upon the top of the catch or lever c, so as to limit the motion given to said lever by the action of the float H, thus regulating the power required to release the arm c and close the apparatus.

Having thus fully described the construction and operation of our invention, /what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

1. In combination with a devic 5 for admitas and for the purposes specified.

ting fluids into casks and other similar vessels cup E, the doet H, and lever a, or its equivaprovided with an inlet and outlet port, sublent, arranged and operating substantially as stantially as herein set forth, and a Valve or herein shown and described.

slide or plug for closing the same, the em- HENRY ABEL WEBBER. ployment of a oat operated by the pressure of CHARLES RE IFSNYDER. the uid escaping from the Cask, substantially Witnesses:

L. L. COBURN,

2. The combination of the outlet-pipe D, the W. E. MARRS. 

